o arquivo sem paredes

(ou como animar um arquivo histórico)

the user experience

the meaning of location

collecting, preserving, disseminating

the user experience

--physical presence is no longer the norm

--the new temporality of visitation (pre- blends into 

during blends into post-)

--shifting expectations & needs re. historical objects 

(freer reuse and remix)

the meaning of location

--ease of travel and digital collections alter 

traditional models of community

--the (g)local reshaping of cultural markets

--the multiplication of modes of off-site access and 

presence (beyond bricks and mortar identities)

collecting, preserving, disseminating

--the infinite vault as laboratory (on view)

--process as product

--building archives across media, dimensions and 

institutions through open APIs

--participatory processing and curation

The animated archive

--has porous walls (collection sharing via open APIs)

--is built on a public square as big or small as the entire world

--adopts a user-centered approach to its physical and digital collections

that taps into the knowledge base of users for purposes of cataloguing

and metadata production

--makes it possible for users to see what other users have done and are doing with materials

--multipurposes and multichannels everything that it does

--has visitor demographics that include underrepresentedaudiences (the young, minorities)

--is a theater of research where the show is the archive’s own work in progress

--opens up its processes to public view, participation, and critique

--embraces(inter)active models of educational programming, with an emphasis on bottom-up 

counterparts to traditional top-down approaches

the work of metaLAB (at) Harvard is currently 

focused on four main domains:

the animation of archives: innovative 

approaches to the study, preservation, 

processing, and dissemination of archival 

corpora; linking intramural and extramural 

repositories across media; 

participatory/expanded models of curation

artifactual knowledge: the development of 3d 

object-centered interfaces as tools for collaborative 

research, teaching and scholarship; zoomable, 

user-controlled 3d interface design for collection 

access and curation

thick mapping: geospatial iterations of arts and 

humanities scholarship

cultural genomics: the use and development of data 

mining and visualization tools for purposes of cultural-

historical research; the visualization of literary and 

other cultural corpora

extraMUROS

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